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Superintendent, then vice-president, Berghoff Brewing Company
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Breuer began a brewer's apprenticeship on 16 May 1866 and emigrated in 1881, working in breweries at Rochester, Chicago and Neillsville, Wisconsin, and running his own brewery at Boscobel, Wisconsin, before coming to Fort Wayne in 1885 as superintendent of the Herman Berghoff Brewing Company. When the firm reorganized in 1899 as the Berghoff Brewing Company — capitalization raised to $250,000 common and $250,000 preferred, later doubled — he stayed on as superintendent, and by the opening of 1917 he was vice-president under president Gustave A. Berghoff, running a plant of about a block and a half producing some 180,000 barrels a year and bottling about 120,000 bottles a day, the Nickel Plate Railroad's most extensive shipper. He served on the board of park commissioners and as a trustee of Concordia College. He married Caroline Rodewald on 23 November 1884.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History, Vol. II (1917), biographical sketch and portrait, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.